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A. F, STAYMAN, OF BALTIMORE, MA BVYLAND Lettcrs Patent No. 64,591, dated lllay 7, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN PREPARING SMOKING TOBACCO.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I

Be it known that I, A. F. STAYMAN, of Baltimore, in the county of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful improvements 'in the Preparation of Tobacco for Smoking; and I do hereby declare that thc'following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, refercnce 'being had to the I accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, like letters indicating like parts wherever they occur.

' lo enable others skilled in the artto construct and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

My present invention consists in first reducing tobacco, in any or all of its forms, to a finely divided state, resembling tobacco dust, and then granulating it, by the process described in my patent granted January 15, 1867, in order toprepare it for smoking.

To enable others skilled in the art to uscmy invention, I will proceed to describe it.

I first take the tobacco leaf, whether with or without the stem, or both combined, and first grind it up for the purpose, either separately or together. Or the tobacco may first be broken up and then ground for the purpose. Or tobacco, in any of its forms, may he reduced to particles of a suitable size, by rubbing, pounding, threshing, or any equivalent mode. After having thus reduced the tobacco to the condition required, I take it and subject it to the granulating process, as described in my patent hcreinbefore referred to. Or, if preferred, the material thus produced from tobacco may be mixed with the-tobacco waste or dust, in greater or less proportion, and then granulated. The granulating process may he the same or similar to that described in my former patent, that is to say, by simply moistening or mixing the prepared material with water, or with any suitable mueilaginous fluid, which will cause the particles to adhere, and then granulat-ing it by passing it through or over screens or sieves, or perforated plates of any required degree of fineness. Or, it may be found more expedient to mix with the prepared 'material, pulvcrizedslippery elm bark, gum arabic, &c., and

then moistening the mass by the addition of a fluid, or by steaming it, and then granulating it. Or, it may be.

made into a pasty mass, spread intosheets or cakes, with'or without pressure, and then; broken up into grains of proper size. It may also be pressed into cakes of the propersize and form to fit into a pipe, or other smoking instrument, the cakes being perforated to cause it .to burn more readily, and. used in that condition.

It is obvious that any desired aromatic or medicinalosubstance may be added to compound, either for the purpose of giving to it a pleasant flavor, or for producing a beneficial effect on the organs of the mouth and throat.

v Having'thus described my invention, what I claim, is

1. The process herein described of preparing tobacco for smoking.

2. I claim, as a new article of manufacture, the smoking material herein described, whether composed or tobacco proper, or partially of tobacco and partially' oftobacco dust combined, when prepared substantially as set forth.

- A. F. STAYMAN.

Witnesses:

A. Morse, Jr., W. G. FREEMAN. 

